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WOODS USED IN FLORIDA. 



Table 1 contains a list of 27 woods used in Florida last 

 .year, according to reports made by manufacturers. It is 

 shown in the table also that some of these woods were 

 procured wholly in the State, others wholly from with- 

 out, while some came partly from within and partly from 

 the outside. The average cost of each and all at the fac- 

 tory is stated in the table, together with the amounts. 

 The table is a summary which shows in condensed form 

 the principal statistics of the wood-using industries of the 

 State. The detailed statistics are shown in the industry 

 tables which follow. 



Preceding pages of this report list and briefly describe 

 a large number of unused woods in the State, those which 

 manufacturers either do not now employ, or use them 

 in so small amounts that they do not consider them 

 worth reporting. It now remains to take up in a similar 

 way the woods that are used. Longleaf pine leads in 

 amount, and rosewood is least. Rosewood is highest in 

 price, madeira next, mahogany third, and evergreen mag- 

 nolia is cheapest. Seven of the woods come wholly from 

 the State, ten entirely without, and the others are di- 

 vided. 



Longleaf Pine. — ^More than half of the entire wood sup- 

 ply of the State, as^ shown in Table 1, is longleaf pine. 

 It is reasonably certain that some Cuban pine and some 

 loblolly are listed as longleaf, but it was not practicable 

 to ascertain how much or to separate them from long- 

 leaf. If the length of the needles alone is taken as a 

 means of identifying the several species of the Southern 

 yellow pines, it is not always a reliable test ; for needles 

 of the same species vary in length, depending upon en- 

 vironment. Longleaf pine has thin sapwood and abun- 

 dance of heart ; the other Southern pines may be expected 

 to show very thick sapwood in proportion to the heart. 

 Tliat fact helps to distinguish longleaf logs and lumber 



